IRS Buckled To GOP Pressure On Secret Donations, Lawyer Says
Huffington Post
Lloyd Mayer, who teaches tax law at the University of Notre Dame, agreed. “The worst fear of most career government servants is being drawn into the political spotlight,” he said. “The political heat got a little bit too hot, and the IRS blinked, rather than stick to its position, which I think was right.” Read More

Wyoming enters uncharted territory with wolf deal
Casper Star-Tribune
Professor Nagle was quoted in a Casper Star-Tribune story on an agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Wyoming to remove the state’s roughly 340 wolves from the endangered species list. Read More

A Moral Flip-Flop? Defining a War
The New York Times
Professor O’Connell was quoted in a New York Times OpEd concerning State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh’s position on Congress’s role in the Libya conflict. Read More

Households Headed by Single Dads Surge as Public and Courts Rethink Traditional Roles
ABA Journal
Compared to 20 years ago, courts are much more likely now to award custody to a dad who is involved in his child’s life, law professor Margaret Brinig of the University of Notre Dame tells the news agency. Read More

Single-Dad Courtroom Wins Show Greater Embrace of New Families
Bloomberg
“If the dad is really interested in getting custody and wants to have a relationship with his kids, he is far more successful than he was 20 years ago,” said Margaret Brinig, a family law professor at the University of Notre Dame. Read More

Recently international law professor Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame University said that the new reliance on drones could prompt an already militaristic superpower to fight even more wars of choice. Read More

A joint project between the Law School’s legal aid clinic and the College of Arts and Letters’ Center for Children and Families will examine the effectiveness of mediation in child custody disputes—specifically the success of educational programs required by the courts and whether the type of mediation makes a difference. Read More

Its scope is limited to U.S. activity where Americans are affected, as in the Noriega case, which means that prosecutors would have limited options for using RICO to pursue News Corp, said G. Robert Blakey, a University of Notre Dame law school professor who drafted the act, which became law in 1970. Read More

In its July 2011 ruling in Flomo v. Firestone Natural Rubber Company, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit cites a law review article by Notre Dame Law Professor Doug Cassel, Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, arguing that corporations involved in human rights violations overseas can be sued for money damages under the Alien Tort Claims Act (“ATCA”). Read More

Popularity Of Drones Takes Off For Many Countries
NPR
Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at Notre Dame University, says there is a risk the U.S. is using more force than is lawfully warranted just because the new technology makes it easy. Read More

FUF: Criticism of Obama over Drone Attacks
WNYC (AP)
Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at Notre Dame University, discusses major human rights organizations’ criticism of the Obama administration’s use of drone strikes. Read More

“It comes from the fact that the players allow the players’ association to license their images because it is such a huge source of money,” said Ed Edmonds, a sports law professor at Notre Dame.
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“We think that it is crucial that ethical alternatives to embryonic stem cell research be pursued,” Notre Dame law professor O. Carter Snead told CNA June 29.
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Human Rights Defender Now Fights For U.S. Policy
That came as a surprise to Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame who fought alongside Koh to protest a broad view of executive power that became popular during the Bush years. > NPR, WFAE 90.7 FM, Minnesota Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting Read More

High Court OKs Sales Of Violent Video Games To Kids
“The answer that we’re getting pretty clearly from a solid majority of the court is that” parental pressure, and market pressure, through labeling, are the only way to limit child access to these games, said Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett
NPR
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Does Libya intervention violate War Powers Resolution?
St. Petersburg Times
“The U.S. has deployed manned and unmanned aircraft to fire missiles and drop bombs — the type of weapons only permissible for use in armed conflict hostilities,” said Mary Ellen O’Connell Read More

NPR
Notre Dame international law professor Mary Ellen O’Connell said the White House is playing word games. “I have no doubt that if we are using drones in Libya, armed drones, we are engaged in hostilities,” O’Connell said. > Read Article Read More

(CNN) — Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. State Department, attempted to convince Congress on June 15 that the “limited nature” of U.S. military operations in Libya are not “hostilities” as envisioned in the War Powers Resolution, and, therefore, required no Congressional authorization. Read More

National Archives and Nixon Foundation to Host Program on Combating Organized Crime
News Blaze
A noted team of Nixon era Justice Department officials, Congressional counselors, and White House advisers will discuss how the Nixon administration combated organized crime and brought substantial, lasting changes to the American criminal justice system…. Panelists will include: G. Robert Blakey…before assuming his present teaching position at Notre Dame Law School in 1980. Read More

Associate Dean Ed Edmonds was quoted in the LA Times by Douglas Farmer in the article A compendium of corruption: Some of the notorious (and some alleged) scandals in sports history. Read More

IRS To Take On Karl Rove? Tax Laws Could Take A Bite Out Of Secret Political Spending – The Huffington Post (Quotes: Lloyd Mayer) – May 25, 2011 Read More

Rajaratnam appeal may be long shot
International Business Times
The 2nd Circuit is unlikely to accept Rajaratnam’s argument that the tapes should be inadmissible because Congress did not authorize the government to seek wiretaps for insider trading, said G. Robert Blakey, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who helped draft Title III. Read More

Rajaratnam Appeal May Be Long Shot
The 2nd Circuit is unlikely to accept Rajaratnam’s argument that the tapes should be inadmissible because Congress did not authorize the government to seek wiretaps for insider trading, said G. Robert Blakey, a professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School who helped draft Title III.

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The bin Laden aftermath: Abbottabad and international law (by: Mary Ellen O’Connell
Foreign Policy
I was in Germany when Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S. military operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2. Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame, as well as the Vice President of the American Society of International Law. Read More

Hijacking Human Rights in Latin America
Biopolitical Times
Morgan points to the way in which Paolo Carozza, a professor and Associate Dean for International and Graduate Programs at the University of Notre Dame Law School, has put forward a rights-based argument regarding Latin America in concert with self-described “pro-life feminist” Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor at Harvard Law School. Read More

Prof. Carter Snead was cited by Judge Ginsburg in the D.C. Circuit opinion in the landmark judicial decision of Sherley, et al., v. Sebelius of his interpretation of the “Dickey Amendment.” The opinion can be found here: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/Appeals%20decision.pdf Read More

Was killing bin Laden legal?
POLITICO
Terrorism – even that perpetrated by Osama bin Laden — is a criminal action and doesn’t necessarily require military force, according to Mary Ellen O’Connell Read More

Hosanna-Tabor case to test our church-state divide
USA Today (Opinion)
Richard Garnett is a professor of law and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame and a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law & Religion at Emory University Read More

Drone warfare won’t win in Libya
CNN.com (Opinion)
Mary Ellen O’Connell holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law and is research professor of international dispute resolution at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Read More

Royal treatment
Worldmag.com
The Supreme Court has consented to hear a case that Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett calls “the most important religious-freedom case in 20 years.” Read More